Business & Tech Trump Pardons Anthony Levandowski, Convicted Thief of Autonomous Vehicle Trade Secrets Former Alphabet employee, Marin County resident and self-driving technology wunderkind Anthony Levandowski was one of 143 people to receive a last-minute pardon from Donald Trump on his way out of the White House.
Business & Tech Google Employees Have Formed a Union, But Only A Tiny Percentage Have Signed Up A smattering of Googlers, YouTubers and Waymo staff have formed the Alphabet Workers Union, in a move that could revolutionize the tech industry — or merely result in about 200 Google employees getting fired for vague “performance” reasons.
Business & Tech Waymo Has Taken Its Self-Driving Fleet Off SF Streets Out of Concern For Post-Election Chaos Safety drivers who are piloting Waymo's self-driving cars around San Francisco as part of a testing program that has been ongoing for several years were instructed on Monday to bring the vehicles back to Mountain View.
Business & Tech Waymo Unleashes ‘Fully Driverless’ Taxis (In Phoenix Only), Elon Musk Stews With Jealous Tweets The Google-Alphabet-Waymo dream of fully autonomous taxicabs is a reality as of today, but only in a small patch of the Phoenix, Arizona area.
Business & Tech Self-Driving Car Engineer Anthony Levandowksi Gets 18-Month Sentence For Stealing Waymo Technology One time Google/Alphabet employee Anthony Levandowski, who jumped ship to take a generous offer from Uber in 2016 that included $680 million for his self-driving truck startup Otto, has just been sentenced to 18 months in jail for stealing trade secrets.
Business & Tech Ex-Uber Exec Pleads Guilty to Stealing Google’s Self-Driving Car Trade Secrets Wunderkind engineer Anthony Levandowski pled guilty to stealing Google’s trade secrets on his way out the door, but it’s hard to think justice has been done when he got let off on 32 of 33 counts.
Business & Tech Star Google Engineer Who Left Waymo Team To Launch Uber's Self-Driving Cars Charged With Theft Of Trade Secrets In a federal case dating back to 2017, former Google and Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski was charged this month with 33 counts of theft and attempted theft of trade secrets.
SF News Waymo Very Close To Launching Self-Driving Cars Without Humans Behind Wheel Waymo may be gearing up to get self-driving cars — without human "safety drivers" — on the road by as early as this fall, according to The Information. If this seems a little soon to
SF News Report: Self-Driving Cars Are Hilariously Easy To Fool Hell hath no fury like tech bros being told that their self-driving cars, artificial intelligence, and machine-learning technologies are overhyped and nowhere near ready for market. But with that in mind, SFist will
SF News Day Around The Bay: Uber Might Settle With Waymo Uber had a call with investors yesterday in which the company frantically tried to ease worries about their financial standing, and suggested there would likely be a settlement in the Google/Waymo case
SF News Uber Lost 'Only' $708 Million Last Quarter, Top Finance Exec Resigns The Montgomery Burns of tech companies, Uber, revealed their 2017 first quarter earnings Wednesday, and lost $708 million says the San Francisco Business Times. But that’s “actually good by Uber standards” according
SF News Uber Fires Self-Driving Car Exec Anthony Levandowski Over Google Lawsuit Anthony Levandowski, a vice president of technology at Uber and reported close pal of CEO Travis Kalanick, has been terminated from the position he's held just over a year, originally heading up the
SF News Uber Changes Tune, Threatens To Fire Self-Driving Exec If He Doesn't Waive His Fifth Amendment Rights In a somewhat surprising turn of events this week, Uber's General Counsel Salle Yoo sent self-driving car division executive Anthony Levandowski a sternly worded letter, dated May 15, asking him to waive his
SF News Lyft Teams With Google's Waymo In Hopes of Driving Uber Under In the ongoing war between Uber and Lyft for ride-sharing supremacy in the not-so distant future where human drivers are rendered obsolete, the latest battle has gone in favor of Lyft. The New
SF News Judge Refers Waymo V. Uber Case For Possible Criminal Investigation An initial decision has come down from a federal judge in the case brought by Google's self-driving car division Waymo against competitor Uber, and the judge has denied Uber's efforts to avoid having
SF News Self-Driving Car Guru Anthony Levandowski Steps Aside From Lead Role At Uber Embattled self-driving car division head Anthony Levandowski is stepping back from his role leading Uber's autonomous vehicle efforts pending the outcome of that court battle involving his former employer, Google/Alphabet, and some
SF News Self-Driving Car Tests Without Human Backup Drivers One Step Closer After Tense Meeting The California DMV stands to further ease its regulations on autonomous vehicles at the urging of automakers, Reuters reports following a heated public hearing in Sacramento Tuesday. Representatives from the Association for Global
SF News Uber Exec Accused Of Stealing Google Self-Driving Car Secrets Pleads Fifth Over Criminal Charges Concerns Anthony Levandowski, an Uber executive whom CEO Travis Kalanick once called his "brother from another mother," is asserting his Fifth Amendment rights in a lawsuit filed by his former employer, Google. Levandowski's lawyers
SF News Autonomous Ubers Drive Under A Mile On Average Before A Human Has To Take Over Now that Uber finally got those California DMV permits it originally said it totally didn't need, it's back testing some driverless cars under DMV supervision in the state. That means we're due to
SF News Google Asking Judge To Keep Uber's Autonomous Cars Off The Road The latest salvo in what could be a very long and drawn out battle between Alphabet-owned self-driving car startup Waymo and Uber comes in a court filing formally asking a federal judge to
SF News Self-Driving Uber That Was Caught On Video Running Red Light Was Driving Itself You'll recall that immediately after launching their self-driving car program in SF in December, Uber had a PR problem involving one of those cars that was caught on a taxi's dash cam blowing
SF News Uber Has Waymo Problems: Google Company Sues Over Allegedly Stolen Tech Uber schadenfreude continues in what's already been a hellish week for a company embroiled in scandal since Sunday after former engineer Susan Fowler went public with an account alleging sexual harassment and discrimination
SF News Google's Self-Driving Minivans Hit The Suburban Streets Of Mountain View This Month Mountain View, California, Google/Alphabet's backyard, is one of several suburban locales where driverless minivans will soon roam free in their natural habitat. In a speech made to a Detroit auto show, the
SF News Google-Founded Self-Driving Car Company Waymo Unveils Vehicles, Eyes 2017 Deployment As Uber continued to argue with state regulators last week over its self-driving cars on San Francisco streets, another manufacturer of autonomous vehicles rolled onto the scene. Executives with Waymo, a company which
